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Word: sneaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard movie will have a "sneak preview" this afternoon at 4:30 in Lamont before it departs on its nation-wide tour. The film has undergone some revisions in its sound track, but today's scheduled showing indicates that it is now ready for release...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fund Raisers To Meet With Alumni Here | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

...quart. And there were sweet potatoes-we called 'em 'mickeys'-that we cooked at a fire over milk crates. We'd climb over the fence to a playground and we'd swing way up, two on a swing. And we'd sneak in the movies. If there was any poverty, I wasn't aware of it. How could you think of it when you could get soda for five cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Gibson Girl | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...party (estimates: $50,000 and up) near London for a few (estimates: 2,000 and up) of his friends. Mike's angle: none, except that, he conceded, a word or two about the London première of his zany travelogue Around the World in 80 Days might "sneak into the newspapers.'' At London's vast, varicolored Battersea Pleasure Gardens, Todd's flunkeys dealt out some 2,000 plastic raincoats he had bought ("The goddamn rain flowed like champagne," the great man growled), while Aly Khan and his great and good friend, French Model Bettina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...justified if it is accurate. Nevertheless, few responsible editors could agree with Publisher Harrison that "the truth never smears anybody." The issue that was largely ignored last week is whether truth a la Confidential is defensible in terms of the instincts it gratifies, the unhappiness it causes or the sneak-thief means by which it is obtained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Warner Bros, polled the audience at a sneak preview of The Spirit of St. Louis, found with pained surprise that hardly anyone under 40 knew or cared anything about Charles A. Lindbergh (now 55) or his solo flight across the Atlantic 30 years ago. Determined that the younger generation should not confuse the Lone Eagle with Sitting Bull, or with Jimmy Stewart, 47, the film's Lindbergh, the studio detailed Tab Hunter, 25 (who does not appear in Spirit), to tout the movie in high schools and colleges, and give a from-the-heart sell to the Missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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